Randall Woolf composes music for orchestra, digital audio, dance, video and concert theater. His recent compositions combine traditional orchestral instruments, digital processing, electric guitar, electronic and acoustic drumsets, and text, creating a richly varied and genre-bending fusion of elements both ancient and futuristic. He also writes and plays piano for SOUP, a soul/jazz/blues/urban band with singer/songwriter Tyrone Henderson. Recently. he has been playing turntable on his own works, notable in a series of concerts for young people presented by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Randall Woolf also works with other composers to help them realize their visions. He collaborates regularly with art-rock pioneer John Cale on film scores such as American Psycho, Otherworld, St. Cyr and arranging orchestral instruments for Cale's work with Siouxsie Sioux and the Mediaeval Baebes, among others. He has arranged music for David Lang and the Kronos Quartet as well. He collaborated with noise-core/house music composer Atau Tanaka on a work for electronics, theremin and orchestra for the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonie in Belgium

Upcoming projects
Everything is Green for flutist Ransom Wilson, piano and electronics, with Rinde Eckert's narration of the short story 'Everything is Green' by David Foster Wallace.

Women At An Exhibition, for orchestra, electronics, and video by Mary Harron and John C. Walsh, based on works of art from the Akron Art Museum. Written for the Akron Symphony.

Bodegas, 4 pieces for violin solo, drum machine, synthesizer, and turntables, written for Todd Reynolds.

Righteous Babe, for flutist Tara O'Connor (flute and piano)

New Work for the Flux String Quartet

String quartet arrangements for John Cale's BBC special, including "Hallelujah" and new songs from his new CD "Hobo Sapiens"

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